Foster, B.

Fishing boats, carts and cattle move beneath castles and church towers in Birket Foster's Rhine, a river of busy towns rathe...

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Fishing boats, carts and cattle move beneath castles and church towers in Birket Foster's Rhine, a river of busy towns rather than empty monuments. Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899) was a British watercolour painter and illustrator, and these are nineteenth-century steel engravings from his drawings, some engraved by E. I. Roberts and issued by William Mackenzie. The route runs from Lake Constance and the Rhine Falls through Basel and Strasbourg to the castle country around Bacharach, St Goarshausen and Koblenz, taking in the cathedral at Speyer, the riverfront at Mainz and Cologne's unfinished cathedral.

Fishing boats, carts and cattle move beneath castles and church towers in Birket Foster's Rhine, a river of busy towns rather than empty monuments. Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899) was a British watercolour painter and illustrator, and these are nineteenth-century steel engravings from his drawings, some engraved by E. I. Roberts and issued by William Mackenzie. The route runs from Lake Constance and the Rhine Falls through Basel and Strasbourg to the castle country around Bacharach, St Goarshausen and Koblenz, taking in the cathedral at Speyer, the riverfront at Mainz and Cologne's unfinished cathedral.

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